How cool are you? Round 4

What was Biggie Smalls birth name? (Rex)

46 The release of the Sex Pistols song “God Save the Queen” was timed to coincide with what public event?

47 What did Muhammad Ali, in one of his boastful riffs, claim to have done to lightning?

48 The Velvet Underground song “Venus in Furs” borrows its title from a novel by which Austrian novelist?

49 What did Lou Reed once describe as the definition of misery?

50 At high school, Janis Joplin was voted what by her contemporaries?

51 Keith Richards has said the song “Gimme Shelter” was inspired by his concerns that Mick Jagger might be sleeping with whom?

52 What, in one of her songs, does Patti Smith say Jimi Hendrix, Jesus Christ and Jackson Pollock have in common?

53 The David Bowie song “Space Oddity” was released in the same week as what great event?

54 Where did Richard Branson go to school?

55 Why is breakdancing called breakdancing?

56 “Here’s to the …. ….” Complete this first line of an advertisement for Apple computers.

57 Which TV personality did Bjork once claim was her greatest musical influence?

58 To whom was Kurt Cobain’s suicide note addressed?

59 What’s the last thing said by Bill Murray to Scarlett Johansson in the film Lost in Translation?

60 What was Biggie Smalls’s birth name?

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Taken from 'How to be Cool' by Thomas W Hodgkinson, published by Icon, priced £12.99.